Re:What is the single most influential book every programmer...
by qqqq2010 on Monday February 28, 2011 @05:22PM
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Oh man... the Rhino is a good reference, but lacks all kinds of best practices and essential style pieces.
Between 'proper' OO style, short circuiting on falsey assignment (var a = b || "default"), checking existence to avoid errors ( if (myObject && myObject.getJSON()){//block to deal with JSON} ) and the DOM, I feel like this is only useful to look up the Date() and Math() methods.
Sorry, just griping because it was the first 'real' programming book I got, and I feel that it misled me for quite a while. </rant>
Between 'proper' OO style, short circuiting on falsey assignment (var a = b || "default"), checking existence to avoid errors ( if (myObject && myObject.getJSON()){//block to deal with JSON} ) and the DOM, I feel like this is only useful to look up the Date() and Math() methods.
Sorry, just griping because it was the first 'real' programming book I got, and I feel that it misled me for quite a while. </rant>